‘Better Call Saul’ recap: Boring corporate law? Jimmy prefers wild side

Small-time attorney Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk) just landed the most prestigious job of his life at a successful yet somewhat tame corporate law office in Santa Fe, N.M.

But Jimmy would rather walk on the wild side – and risk disbarment – by protecting an oddball drug dealer on “Cobbler,” Episode 202 of AMC’s “Better Call Saul.”

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Thanks to a boost from attorney and occasional lover Kimberly Wexler (Rhea Seehorn), Jimmy now handles client outreach for a multi-million-dollar class action lawsuit. The target is a chain of assisted-living facilities that systematically bilks vulnerable senior citizens.

On the plus side, Jimmy suddenly enjoys an impressive income, spacious office and luxurious new Mercedes. On the negative side, he’s bored, antsy and yearns for the adrenalin rush of practicing down-and-dirty criminal law.

Jimmy’s ethically challenged nature surfaces when his older brother Chuck (Michael McKean), a distinguished attorney who’s usually homebound with a mysterious case of “electromagnetic hypersensitivity,” emerges from a long seclusion.

It’s a tense encounter for the estranged siblings, in that Chuck blackballed Jimmy and nearly derailed his legal career.

“What are you doing here?” Jimmy coldly asks.

“My name is on the building,” Chuck tersely replies, referring to Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill, which partners with Jimmy’s law firm.

Moments later, Jimmy takes a call from Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), a parking lot attendant whose expertise as a former cop helps him earn money in the narcotics underworld.

“You still morally flexible?” Mike asks. “If so, I might have a job for you.”

“Where and when?” Jimmy responds without hesitation. His assignment? Keep clueless drug dealer Daniel Wormald (Mark Proksch) out of jail.

Daniel naively filed a police report in hopes of recovering his baseball card collection after gangbanger Nacho Varga (Michael Mando) ransacked Daniel’s house and stole a hidden stash of prescription medications along with the cards.

Now a pair of nosy detectives (A. Russell Andrews and Troy Winbush) have some hard questions for Daniel. And if he’s arrested, Daniel would surely implicate Mike, who provided “muscle” during drug transactions with Nacho.

“It’s probably a bad idea that you willingly talk to the police, being a criminal and all,” Mike calmly explains to Daniel, whose flashy yellow Hummer is essentially a “blinking neon sign” that screams “drug dealer.”

“They will get you in there, pretend to be your friend, lull you into a false sense of security and then they will sweat you,” Mike warns. “And you will break.”

As for Daniel’s beloved baseball cards, Mike promises to retrieve them. He does so by threatening to reveal Nacho’s “extracurricular activities” to his psychotic boss, drug kingpin Tuco Salamanca (Raymond Cruz).

When it comes time to face the detectives, Daniel is scooted out of the interrogation room by Jimmy, who concocts an outrageous, barely believable story regarding the residential burglary.

The thief, Jimmy claims, is a disgruntled “art patron” who made off with a “squat cobbler” fetish video in which Daniel sits on a pie and wiggles around as tears roll down his cheeks.

“Hey, the world is a rich tapestry, my friends,” Jimmy says to the dumbfounded detectives. And to allay any suspicions, Jimmy convinces Daniel to record a kinky video as “proof.”

“I gotta say,” Jimmy later reveals to Kim, “in the end, old Dan really committed. I believed the tears.”

“You used falsified evidence to exonerate a client,” Kim exclaims. Why, she asks in shock and dismay, would Jimmy jeopardize the best job he ever had?

“I cannot hear about this sort of thing ever again,” Kim angrily insists.

“You won’t,” Jimmy mutters as he dejectedly eats a leftover piece of pie.